O'Connor, John MichaelA Treatise on the Science of War and Fortification; Composed for the use of the Imperial Polytechnick School, and Military Schools, Two Volumes, Both signed by Stephen Van Rensselaer J. Seymour 1817 - Translated for the War Department for use of the Military Academy of the United States; to which is added a summary of the principles and maxims, grand tactics and operations. Published in 2 volumes. The supplemental volume of plates and maps is not included. Stephen Van Rensselaer, "The Last Patroon", was the founder of what is now Rensselaer Polytechnick Institute in Troy, New York, He served in congress from 1822 to 1829. His failure during the War of 1812 at Queenston Heights, Canada diminished his stature as a general and military leader. His signature appears in both volumes and includes the words: Seneca Falls, New York, July 1832. The author of the book was captain of artillery, and late major and assistant adjutant-general in the Northern Army. The covers and spine have been professionally replaced. The text is original. The pages are deckled. There is some foxing to the pages but the pages are white and the text, graphs, equations and drawings are flawless. (see attached photos of the book.) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

United States. Congress. HouseReport of the select committee appointed on the 12th ult to inquire into the expediency of altering the flag of the United States January 2, 1817, read, and ordered to be printed [Washington]: no publisher/printer 12mo. 3 pp.. [1817] Sole printing of the committee report that led to the adoption of the composition of the U.S. flag as 13 stripes to represent the original colonies and one white star on the blue field for each state fully admitted to the union. => A landmark piece of Americana. Removed from a nonce volume and now in modern boards covered with blue paper, and with a red leather gilt label on the front cover. Very good copy.

(Spain) Holland, Richard Henry. LordSome Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega Carpio and Guillen de Castro London: Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817. First thus. xv, 261, [1]; vii, [i], 232 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in full contemporary brown polished calf, spines rubbed, brown binder's ticket on front pastedowns, "Bound by Smith 49 Long Acre", in each volume; front joint of vol. I starting, fixing to preliminaries, else very good. Inscribed Twice INSCRIBED on the first blank leaf of volume I, "With the author's best regards March 1834 London" and on the title page of both volumes, "To my dear Aunt Mrs. Moore, E.V. Holland." Lady Holland's Aunt, Mrs. Moore of NYC, was Clement C. Moore's motherThe first volume, containing the account of Lope de Vega's life and writings was first published in 1806; this is the first two volume edition and the first containing the treatment of Guillen de Castro.

Spain) Holland, Richard Henry. LordSome Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega Carpio and Guillen de Castro Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London 1817 - Inscribed Twice INSCRIBED on the first blank leaf of volume I, "With the author's best regards March 1834 London" and on the title page of both volumes, "To my dear Aunt Mrs. Moore, E.V. Holland." Lady Holland's Aunt, Mrs. Moore of NYC, was Clement C. Moore's motherThe first volume, containing the account of Lope de Vega's life and writings was first published in 1806; this is the first two volume edition and the first containing the treatment of Guillen de Castro. Bound in full contemporary brown polished calf, spines rubbed, brown binder's ticket on front pastedowns, "Bound by Smith 49 Long Acre", in each volume; front joint of vol. I starting, fixing to preliminaries, else very good xv, 261, [1]; vii, [i], 232 pp. 2 vols. 8vo [Attributes: Signed Copy]

Mauritius]:ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPTS FROM AND RELATING TO THE ISLAND OF MAURITIUS]. [Mauritius. 1767-1817]. - Approximately thirty-four items, totaling 75pp. plus several other later or tangential items. Mostly folio and quarto sheets, with a few smaller pieces. Light soiling and wear throughout, heavier to some documents. Overall good to very good. A superb archive of manuscripts spanning more than fifty years of French colonial history in the southern Indian Ocean, and reflecting the extreme danger of some of France's farthest-flung endeavors, especially during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Among the manuscripts offered are letters signed by Mauritius governor, Malartic, to the governor of Réunion, and an instruction given to the Chevalier de Sanglier sent to Mauritius by the Commander of the French troops in Madagascar, Maurice Auguste, Baron Benyovszky. The earliest item is a letter from the Cesar Gabriel de Choiseul, Duc de Praslin, regarding the precarious social climate in the colony. Dated 1767, he writes, "Messieurs. les revolutions arrives En Cette Colonie dans les affaires de la Compagnie." At that time, the Compagnie des Indes was handing over control of the island to the French government. There are eight autograph manuscripts signed by Anne Joseph Hippolyte de Maures de Malartic - Governor of the island, "Le Citoyen President," and "Sauveur de la Colonie" - regarding the governing of the islands during the French Revolution. All are dated at the Ile de France from 1793 to 1794. There are also two autograph letters on the printed letterhead of Maurice Auguste, Baron Benyovszky, regarding the supplies needed for his Madagascar colony, including tens of thousands of seeds for coffee and cotton. An officer of the Hapsburg army during the Seven Years' War, Benyovszky later served in the Confederation of Bar and assisted with a rebellion against the King of Poland, for which he was eventually imprisoned in Siberia. He managed to organize a rebellion among the Polish soldiers, commandeer a ship, and sail through the Aleutian islands and on to Taiwan and then Macau, where he befriended French diplomats. He used his new contacts to arrange an audience with Louis XV, to whom he proposed a French colony on Madagascar - King Louis was intrigued enough to agree and he appointed Benyovszky Governor of the new colony. Two further manuscripts relate to the precarious position in which the French colonists found themselves during the Mauritius campaign of 1809-1811. "Croyez, Messieurs, que Sa Majesté L'Empereur, Saura apprécier ce nouvel acte de Votre dévouement." Dated at the Ile de France, 31 8bre 1809. There is also a group of letters and other items from 1853 relating to Eugene Leclezio, the man who seems to have assembled all of the manuscripts. It includes several small manuscript maps of the island and the region in the Indian Ocean. There are also several later printed and manuscript items related to the same subjects. The Dutch were the first Europeans to become interested in the island, taking possession in 1598. After exploiting the island's dense forests for a century and introducing the cultivation of sugar cane and cotton, in 1710 the Dutch abandoned the colony. The French soon claimed it as "Ile de France," and the island remained under the control of the French East India Company until 1767. During the long war between France and England at the beginning of the 19th century, Mauritius proved to be an important strategic naval base, and as a result the British took charge of the island in 1810, and the Treaty of Paris confirmed official British possession in 1814. It remained an important sugar producing colony, and in the 20th century agricultural production was expanded to include tea, rice, and other produce. A unique and fascinating archive of manuscript material relating to French activities in the Indian Ocean.

Dibdin, Thomas FrognallTHE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DECAMERON; OR, TEN DAYS PLEASANT DISCOURSE UPON ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, AND SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH EARLY ENGRAVING, TYPOGRAPHY, AND BIBLIOGRAPHY London: Printed for the Author by W. Bulmer & Co., Shakespeare Press, 1817. First Edition. Morocco. Very Good. Three volumes. pp: ccxxv, 410, (1) corrections and additions; (iii), 535, (1) corrections and additions; (iii), 544, (1) errata. Printed on large paper. Complete with 37 leaves of plates as called for in the List of Plates in Volume III (one double, one folding), many engravings in text, several illustrations colored as issued. As usual in this book, some plates have offset onto facing text, despite the tissue guards. Bound in long-grained, tan morocco, elaborate spine decorations and dentelles, all edges gilt. Except for the occasional off-setting, this set is in fine condition. 10" x 6.25"

Stewart, CElements of the Natural History of the Animal Kingdom Comprising the Characters of the Whole Genera and of the Most Remarkable Species, Particularly Those that are Natives of Britain with the Principle Circumstances of their History ... (Truncated) Longman, Hurst; Reece, Orme & Brown, 1817, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, 2nd EditionFull Book Title: Elements of the Natural History of the Animal Kingdom Comprising the Characters of the Whole Genera and of the Most Remarkable Species, Particularly Those that are Natives of Britain with the Principle Circumstances of their History and Manners VOLUME 1 ONLYRecently rebound with quarter brown boards with gold gilt to the spine. The boards are worn and marked. The book has one cancelled library label with no other library markings. Binding is strong and there are no inscriptions. VOLUME 1 ONLY. Quantity Available: 1. Inventory No: adwa.

RAFFLES, Thomas StamfordThe History of Java London: Printed for Black, Parbury, and Allen, Booksellers to the Hon. East-India Company and John Murray, , 1817. 2 volumes, quarto (273 × 213 mm). Recent half green morocco-grained sheep, marbled boards, to style, red morocco labels, spine compartments formed by a gilt acanthus roll, gilt centre-tool, edges sprinkled red. 10 superb hand-coloured aquatint costume plates after William Daniell, and 56 uncoloured aquatint plates, one folding, 8 exquisite engraved vignettes, large folding map, coloured in outline, numerous tables, 2 of them folding. Frontispieces somewhat foxed, light browning and some foxing throughout, mild offsetting, overall a very good copy, sympathetically presented. First edition. "The marriage of a scientifically original text with beautiful illustrations by an accomplished aquatint engraver resulted in a book about Indonesia of outstanding quality; indeed a masterpiece" (Bastin & Brommer). Raffles was appointed lieutenant governor of Java in 1811 when the island and its dependencies were occupied by Lord Minto following the Annexation of the Netherlands by Napoleon. During the next four years he extended the area of European control and reorganised the Dutch colonial system in the island, as well as making an extensive study of the history, customs and languages of the region. Although described by C.M. Turnbull in ODNB as "betraying hasty composition," The History of Java, is a remarkable work of synthesis, combining natural history - he enlisted the help of the American botanist Thomas Horsfield, who sent specimens to Banks at Kew - history, anthropology, philology and topography. The superb plates with their images of costume, architecture, native implements and weapons, Buddhist iconography, and alphabets; the extensive tabulation of population and cultivation province by province; and the comparative vocabulary, reflect the breadth of intention of the work. It is unsurprising that it "caused a stir" and quickly sold through its print-run of just 900 copies. The History of Java is an almost perfect summation of the East India Company's ambitions at their most enlightened, and as such is a reflection of its author; "A man of vision, with great ambitions for himself and his country, he saw Britain's mission to raise the people of the eastern archipelago from ignorance and poverty, not by means of territorial expansion but a combination of commercial and moral pre-eminence: reviving old cultures and spreading European enlightenment through economic progress, liberal education, and the rule of law". Armorial bookplates of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, second baronet, Prime Minister 1834-5, 1841-6, reimposed to the front pastedowns beneath collector's ticket of R.H. Burrage.

[ROWLANDSON] WILLIAMS, MrThe Adventures Of A Post Captain. By A Naval Officer London: L. Johnston, [1817]., 1817. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with 'J. and T. Agg' to verso of title page. 8vo.; pp. 282. Illustrated with 25 hand coloured plates. Contemporary half brown calf, gilt, marbled boards and edges. General wear to binding, with small loss at head and tail of spine. Hinges starting. A few spots of foxing, but mostly clean. Very Good. Tooley 484. Book Collector No.271, 'The Great Illustrators'.

Jane AustenDetails about 1817 NORTHANGER ABBEY & PERSUASION JANE AUSTEN 1ST EDITION 4VL SET VERY RARE $$$ NORTHANGER ABBEYPERSUASIONDec. 1817, Copyright 1818; Jane Austen; True First Edition; London, John Murray; Rebound Cloth; Half Titles in Vol. I/II only; XXIV, 300, 331, 280, 308 Pages; w4.5"xh7.2"; Extremely Rare!!!Great For any Fan of the Famous Author/Classics or Collector. Great Gift Idea; Two Classics in One; Complete in Four Volumes!!!ATTRIBUTES:Four blue paper cover designs with navy blue cloth bindings with gold labeling and Two Great Classics from the Legendary Author; With Biography!!!SUMMARIES:Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. According to Cassandra Austen's Memorandum, Susan (as it was first called) was written circa 1798?"99. It was revised by Austen for the press in 1803, and sold in the same year for £10 to a London bookseller, Crosby & Co., who decided against publishing. In the spring of 1816, the bookseller was content to sell it back to the novelist's brother, Henry Austen, for the exact sum?"£10?"that he had paid for it at the beginning, not knowing that the writer was by then the author of four popular novels.The novel was further revised by Austen in 1816/17, with the intention of having it published. Among other changes, the lead character's name was changed from Susan to Catherine, and Austen retitled the book Catherine as a result.Austen died in July 1817. Northanger Abbey (as the novel was now called) was brought out posthumously in late December 1817 (1818 given on the title page), as the first two volumes of a four-volume set that also featured another previously unpublished Austen novel, Persuasion. Neither novel was published under the title Jane Austen had given it; the title Northanger Abbey is presumed to have been the invention of Henry Austen, who had arranged for the book's publication. Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma and completed it in August 1816. She died, at age 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December of that year (but dated 1818).Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together, but also because both stories are set partly in Bath, a fashionable city with which Austen was well acquainted, having lived there from 1801 to 1805.BACKGROUND: Jane Austen (16 December 1775 ?" 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism, biting irony and social commentary as well as her acclaimed plots have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.CONDITION:Conditions are Good. Some wear to edges/corners, missing some paper at corners, clipped top of first end page, first/last few pages are delicate, spot or blemish here and there throughout, age toned pages, pages darker in person, small tear/blemish spot to pg 54/55 in vol. III affecting a word or two, would handle pages with care, text blocks are good, would get rebound, no half titles to two vols., missing first/last blanks to vol.IV. Overall, for close to 200 years old they're in Good Condition!!!

MOZART, Wolfgang and Lorenzo da PONTEDon Juan; A Grand Opera in Two Acts: Represented for the First Time in London, at The King's Theatre, in the Haymarket, April, 1817. The Music Entirely by Mozart. London: Printed by W. Winchester and Son, in the Strand; and sold at the Opera-House, And nowhere else. (Price two shillings, and no more.) [1817]. - [ii], viii [ix - x characters], 105 [106 colophon]pp, 8vo. With Italian on verso of each leaf and English on facing recto. Later 19th century attractive straight-grained red morocco, gilt spine, aeg. Title-page mounted, small blank corner of second leaf, but a very good copy. £1,100 This is the second edition of Don Giovanni in English, which coincides with the first performance on stage in England, 1817. Although there was a concert performance in the Hanover Square rooms in 1809. The music is not present. As a fully-staged opera, Don Giovanni was brought to London by the musical impresario William Ayrton (1777-1858), who signs the most interesting preface to this edition. In 1817 Ayrton was manager of Italian opera at the Haymarket (King&#146;s) Theatre, and for this season he brought over new Italian singers including Madame Camporese and Signor Crivelli. The debut of this famously belated performance was missed by Leigh Hunt who was at the time editor and opera critic for the Examiner. Marooned in Buckinghamshire he sent a letter to Vincent Novello the musician who had tickets for the opening night. I &#147;envy you the power of seeing Don Giovanni&#148; he wrote wistfully. Hunt was envious for good reason. This production permanently changed the nature of opera and opera-going London. The audience for the 1817 Don Giovanni extended far beyond the usual opera aristocracy. The box subscribers soon chose to scorn Mozart. For a few crazed months of 1817 the King&#146;s Theatre presented a spectacle of class chaos and intermingling rarely seen in the Regency. The sheer size of audience demand for Mozart was so great that, temporarily, democracy was forced upon the proprietors of the King&#146;s Theatre: &#147;So great has been the overflow from the Pit [it] has been found necessary to throw open such of the Upper Boxes as remain unlet to accommodate those who are unable to get seats below.&#148; It ran for a record twenty-three nights. &#147;There never was exhibited to the musical world a more consummate feast than Don Giovanni,&#148; concluded the Times 12 January 1818. For two famous literary figures it was a conversion experience. Charles Lamb wrote to Ayrton &#147;I am in your debt for a very delightful evening and I am almost inclined to allow Music to be one of the Liberal Arts: which before I had doubted.&#148; Lamb requested three more gallery tickets for the next week&#146;s performances. Thomas Love Peacock persuaded Shelley to accompany him. Peacock states: &#147;Before it commenced he asked me if the opera was comic or tragic. I said it was composite, more comedy than tragedy.&#148; After the killing of the Commendatore, Shelley said &#147;Do you call this comedy?&#148; However Shelley became absorbed in the music of Mozart. (Studies in Romanticism, 2005, Cockney Mozart, Gillen D&#146;Arcy Wood.) OCLC and Copac records the following copies: British Library, Bodeian, London University, V&A and National Library of Scotland; and in the USA at Harvard, Yale, Binghamton, Chicago, Texas and NYPL (Performing Arts). [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Tompkins, Daniel D., Governor of New YorkDocument signed ("Daniel D. Tompkins") Albany, NY 1817 - A Lottery for Literature Interesting document, appointing four men Charles Cooper, John Targe, Isaac Denniston and John B. Yates to be "Managers of the lottery mentioned & authorized in and by the Act Entitled 'An Act instituting a lottery for the promotion of Literature & for other purposes', passed April 13th 1814". Matted. A little stained along edges, some tearing at folds 1 page, with integral blank, docketed on rear "Lottery for the Promotion of Literature"; counter-signed by William Ironside, and Privy Seal affixed. 1 vols. 4to [Attributes: Signed Copy]

Godwin, WilliamMandeville. A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in England Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. and Longman, Hunt, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. First edition, with half-titles. xii, 306; [iv], 316; [iv], 367, [1] pp. 3 vols. 12mo. New boards, ex-lib stamp to verso of title pages, some light foxing throughout; near fine. Godwin's Gothic novel, inspired partly by Wieland by Charles Brockdon Brown, and by Joanna Baillie. "Written like all his novels in the first person the book attempts to show how obsession leads to madness. Godwin sought to trace the breakdown of personality from within ... [Mandeville] is an openly avowed exploration of the subconscious mind which gradually overrides and destroys conscious rationality ... Mandeville ... is an essay in one of the great themes of romanticism" - St. Clair, THE GODWINS AND THE SHELLEYS, p. 440.

Henderson, RobertAn Inquiry into the Nature and Object of the Several Laws for 1817. Public Drinking in Regency-Era England Henderson, Robert. An Inquiry into the Nature and Object of the Several Laws for Restraining and Regulating the Retail Sale of Ale, Beer, Wines, And Spirits; In Which Some of the Causes Productive of Low or Ill-Governed Ale-Houses are Traced; The Objections Against Wine-Vaults or Liquor-Shops Considered; And the Necessity of an Appellate Jurisdiction from the Judicial Decisions of Justices of the Peace on These Subjects, Demonstrated; With Some Suggestions as to a Proposed Amendment of the Law; And an Appendix of Cases, Illustrative of Individual Calamity Suffered Under the Existing Mode of Granting and Witholding Licenses to Inns, Taverns, Ale-Houses, &c. Without the Power of Appeal; In a Letter to the Hon. Henry Grey Bennett, M.P. Chairman of the Committee on the State of the Police of the Metropolis. London: Printed by G. Davidson. 1817. [ii], 144 pp. Half-title lacking. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Recent quarter calf over marbled boards, calf title panel to front, marbled endpapers. Light toning to text, internally clean. * Only edition. A detailed portrait of the licensed public-house trade in Regency England, especially London, which had around 6000 pubs. Henderson, a London barrister, does not restrict his focus to legal aspects of the trade. He also examines the social problems caused by unregulated drinking establishments and the often questionable qualities of their landlords, who were often as questionable as the drinks they served. OCLC locates 3 copies, none in North America. Not in Sweet & Maxwell. Catalogue of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature 21902.

MALTHUS, T[homas] R[obert]Additions to the fourth and former editions of An Essay on the Principle of Population, &c. &c These Additions were offprinted from the substantially revised and enlarged fifth edition and are here published separately for readers who already owned earlier editions. The Additions include chapters on "the checks to population in France" and "the checks to population in England". There are also substantial further thoughts on the poor and the relationship of poverty to civil liberty. The appendix is devoted to a demolition of John Weyland's Principles of Population and Production (1816) and James Grahame's An Inquiry into the Principle of Population (1816). [For further comment see Patricia James' Population Malthus, 1979, pp.369 et seq.].8vo, iv + 327 + (1)pp, without the advertisement leaves found in some copies, some intermittent foxing (on title page and elsewhere), one leaf with long closed tear (repaired) but with no loss of printed surface, in an excellent early 20th century quarter calf over marbled boards, raised bands and spine label lettered gilt, entirely uncut. A good copy in an excellent binding., 1817. First and only edition. Kress B.6973. Goldsmiths 21762. Einaudi 3664. Amex 294.. These Additions were offprinted from the substantially revised and enlarged fifth edition and are here published separately for readers who already owned earlier editions. The Additions include chapters on "the checks to population in France" and "the checks to population in England". There are also substantial further thoughts on the poor and the relationship of poverty to civil liberty. The appendix is devoted to a demolition of John Weyland's Principles of Population and Production (1816) and James Grahame's An Inquiry into the Principle of Population (1816). [For further comment see Patricia James' Population Malthus, 1979, pp.369 et seq.]. 8vo, iv + 327 + (1)pp, without the advertisement leaves found in some copies, some intermittent foxing (on title page and elsewhere), one leaf with long closed tear (repaired) but with no loss of printed surface, in an excellent early 20th century quarter calf over marbled boards, raised bands and spine label lettered gilt, entirely uncut. A good copy in an excellent binding.

MARCET, JaneConversations on Political Economy; Philadelphia: Moses Thomas,, 1817. In which the elements of that science are familiarly explained. Octavo. Original green boards, spine and covers lettered in black, edges uncut and partly unopened. Front board partially separating from spine, some slight stains to the boards, spine cracked but holding, contents slightly foxed. A very good copy. First US edition in the scarce original boards (first published in the UK in 1816). Aimed at the less formally educated, this work was an effort by Marcet to popularize orthodox economics. Schumpeter notes that "Speaking of texts, we should not pass by Mrs Jane Marcet's Conversations ... James Mill's was an elementary, but not an easy, text on pure theory. McCulloch's was the saleable stuff for the college course in general economics. Mrs Marcet's was economics for what we should call high-school girls..." (Schumpeter. p. 477 fn).

[FREYCINET] BRETILLARD, Nicolas Alexandre, French consul for the Canary IslandsAutograph letter signed sent to Freycinet on board the Uranie, relating to the local markets and the purchase of wine for the expedition Ste. Croix de Tenerife: 24 October, 1817. ALS on bifolium of laid paper, 255 x 200 mm., some simple calculations in Freycinet's hand, Archives de Laage stamp, torn without significant loss at original seal; very good. Selecting wine for the Uranie voyage. A letter sent on board the Uranie while it was anchored at Tenerife in the Canary Islands by the local French Agent Consulaire, Monsieur Bretillard, relating particularly to the wines available for purchase in the town (a serious concern for a French voyage of exploration!). Freycinet is known to have been very serious about keeping an archive of his own letters and correspondence, but this is a most unexpected survival, one of the letters received on board the ship and boldly addressed to "Le Chevalier de Freycinet, Commandant la Corvette de S.M. l'Uranie".Bretillard is not a well-known figure, but he was a French agent in Tenerife and evidently very well connected. Freycinet was clearly using him as in some sense a "fixer" while he was anchored in the harbour, which was more urgent than otherwise the case because the Governor had recently introduced stringent quarantine restrictions after receiving news of one of the periodical outbreaks of disease in the Mediterranean. The letter is dated 24 October 1817.The opening paragraph comments that Bretillard can do very little regarding the local merchants after 10, especially anything relating to the fish-mongers. Mentions the help of one Monsieur Martin.The second paragraph relates to the question of the quarantine in the harbour, and announces that the ship will be able to anchor off the lazaretto in the town, and giving directions (Freycinet did indeed anchor there on the first night, to the horror of Rose - see Woman of Courage, pp. 5-6).The third and much the longest paragraph (taking up the entire second page) deals with the question of what wine is available to be purchased in the colony. Bretillard sends on board a sample bottle of the "bon vin marchand de Tenerife", which he can obtain at the price of 575 francs per pipe of 480 litres. Also available is some Bordeaux, 45 "gourdes" of Barrique, a "Vin de Pain Brion" of 1812, and another "Cargaison" much like a Bordeaux. The letter wraps up with some notes on how the transaction could be made.It is particularly intriguing that on the blank third sheet there are some very modest calculations in Freycinet's distinctive hand, using some of the quantities quoted by Bretillard - Freycinet was evidently trying to work out how much wine he could possible acquire!

Joseph ThomasTHE LIFE OF THE PILGRIM, JOSEPH THOMAS, CONTAINING AN ACCURATE ACCOUNT OF HIS TRAILS, TRAVELS AND GOSPEL LABOURS, UP TO THE PRESENT DATE Winchester, VA: J. Foster, 1817. First Edition. Full Leather. 12mo. 372pp. A very uncommon First Edition of Thomas?'s autobiography later reprinted with some omissions in 1861 under a slightly different title; full bound in contemporary sheep with spine label and simple fillets on the spine; moderate to heavy foxing/toning throughout; contemporary owner names on the endpapers and title page; a relatively nice copy of this uncommon autobiography. Thomas, known as the ?"White Pilgrim?" was an itinerant preacher, born in North Carolina who traveled extensively in Virginia and as a young preacher. Howes describes him as ?"A frontier gospel ranter who vied with Lorenzo Dow in wander lust and eccentricity. In two years he traveled 7000 miles through Tenn., Ky. and Ohio.?" Thomas died of small pox in New Jersey in 1835. Sabin 95428, Howes T176, Shaw & Shoemaker 42271.